Welcome friends to issue #22
It must be springtime, the weather is crazy here in Pennsylvania. First it's 60 degrees and sunny, then 30 degrees and snowing - all in the same day! During the freeze & thaw cycle I get to glimpse the new leaves bursting up from the soil, soon we'll have flowers like those in Sig's Spring Flowers peyote project.
Linda Hampton treats us to an adorable pair of brick stitch earrings to wear during those April showers. Celebrate spring with a sky blue beaded egg from Laurie Silva. Get your sparkle on with a fire-polish beauty by Sandra Halpenny. Barb Nichols shares a delightful pearl & peyote cab bezel design.
Polly wants a peyote Mini Parrot Pouch from Maddiethekat Designs. Michelle Hall used the new tiny Delicas to create a bracelet for her boss who only likes "Real gold Jewelry" - she loved it! Couldn't believe it was beads. Dottie Hoeschen's beaded bead is full of design possibilities while Linda Gettings' Fringe Frenzy bracelet is lush and inviting. Enjoy!
Deb Moffett-Hall - Editor

Fire Drops Fringe Frenzy Bracelet
by Linda Gettings

String a bracelet of fringe or drop beads and then add drop & seed bead loop fringe up and down the bracelet for a luxuriant beaded bangle.

Materials:

3 x 6mm tear drops or fringe beads

Size 11 seed beads

10" fine bead stringing wire

2 crimp beads, pliers

14mm toggle clasp

Thread to match

Needle

Individual Pattern is not available

Springtime Beaded Egg
by Laurie Silva - Busy Crow Studio

This gorgeous egg isn't just for Easter! Ladder, Brick stitch and netting combine to encase a painted wooden egg in sparkling beaded lace.

Stitch a herringbone base of large triangles and seeds and accent with rows of medium and small seed beads for a richly textured beaded bead.

Materials:

60 size 5 triangles

51 size 8 seed beads

60 size 11 seed beads

4 grams size 15 seed beads

2mm satin cord

Cord/Crimp style clasp

Assorted Large hole accent beads: 12-16mm in width

Individual Pattern is not available

Mini Parrot Pouch
by Maddiethekat Designs

Here's an opportunity to try your hand at tapestry-style even count peyote. The many color changes create an incredibly realistic image. While a color chart is supplied this might be the perfect pattern to learn to work from a word chart.

Size 11 Delia Bead number and (quantites) listed:

DB 10 (940) - DB 43 (118) - DB 80 (8)

DB 61 (8) - DB 87 (21) - DB 88 (31)

DB 100 (9) - DB 103 (62) - DB 157 (392)

DB 163 (60) - DB 169 (99) - DB 172 (31)

DB 180 (15) - DB 202 (58) - DB 210 (12)

DB 232 (3) - DB 234 (14) - DB 242 (49)

DB 256 (30) - DB 272 (16) - DB 275 (7)

DB 283 (175) - DB 286 (48) - DB 306 (10)

DB 307 (12) - DB 310 (41) - DB 351 (25)

DB 693 (109) - DB 715 (12) - DB 731 (26)

DB 769 (24) - DB 797 (12) - DB 853 (10)

DB 876 (58) - DB 912 (14) - DB 690 (64)

DB 1342 (77)

Individual Pattern is not available

Spring Cab
by Barb A. Nichols

Make a beautiful cab even more stunning with a pearl beaded bezel and matching necklace.

Materials:

5 grams size 11 Miyuki seeds (smokey amethyst trans matte #142F)

1 gram size 11 Miyuki Delicas (DBMIX04 Passionflower)

1 gram size 15 Miyuki seeds (amethyst-purple lined AB #356)

50 pink pearls, 4mm

Cab: 20x25mm puff oval

2 split rings, 4mm

1 lobster clasp, 6mm

1 extension chain

Silamide thread for bezel

26" Fireline 6 or 8lb test

Size 12 beading needle

Individual Pattern is not available

Floating Rounds Bracelet
by Michelle Hall

Gold metal rounds seem to float between two bands of tiny size 15 Delicas, this will satisfy anyone's "gold fever".

Any pattern can be a springboard to personal creative expression. To illustrate, Sig took her basic straight edge bracelet panel, shaped it with decreases, and worked a minor re-design on the ends. For added sparkle she stitched flat back crystals on top of key elements of the design.